Stick(er)y Situation

I am currently helping plan two parties for important people in my life: a first birthday for my nephew, and a party celebrating the recent marriage of my brother-in-law and his wife.

I came across a pin on Pinterest on how to make monogram stickers using Avery labels. I thought having a custom sticker on dessert bags/boxes would look awesome, so, I moved on over to Avery.com to check out their templates. They have soooooo many products to choose from.

I went with the 2in. circles below.

Here is how to navigate to the templates below:

Since I already knew the product I was using, I was able to search for it. 

Once the product is selected, Avery already has a ton of really great designs that can be customized using text boxes. I went with a custom design I made myself since I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.

I used PowerPoint to come up with my design using a circle shape so I could change the background and add textboxes, etc.  Then I saved it as a "JPG File Interchange Format" to upload the image onto the sticker. This method of saving as a JPG doesn't always come out the best, so the other option is to save the file as a PDF and find a PDF to JPG converter online. 

Also on Pinterest, I found a site with the most amazing free font downloads. Where has this been all my life?!? Go to Dafont.com IMMEDIATELY!! I am so mad I didn't find it sooner, but so glad I did. There are so many to choose from! It was hard not to download them all! Here are a mere 25 of my favorite fonts, with links in the caption (fonts are free for personal use and they all have licensing terms):

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 

So once you have your stickers designed, you're all ready to print! Start by printing only one sticker at a time, or else you'll get a full sheet of papers that look like this: 

What the hell is that white space on the right side?!? It didn't look like that in the preview!

 Make sure you use the "printer adjustment" to get your stickers just right. 

I had to go back into the design screen and move my sticker around a little bit to get them just right.

So hard to decide which one to use! I think I'm going with the plain pink background.

So excited to use these at upcoming parties!